Copecion

Copecion
Temporal range: Wasatchian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: ?Perissodactyla
Family: Phenacodontidae
Genus: Copecion
Gingerich, 1989

Copecion was a genus of early herbivorous mammals that was part of the family Phenacodontidae.[1]

References

  1. P. D. Gingerich. 1989. "New earliest Wasatchian mammalian fauna from the Eocene of northwestern Wyoming: composition and diversity in a rarely sampled high-floodplain assemblage". University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 28:1-97.


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